Each of these 13 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
an Indian tribe livin the N. ing parts of Bolivia and Brazil. They have numerous small villages and follow hunting and fishing for a livelihood. Some of them formerly embraced the Christian religion. There is but a remnant of the tribe remaining.
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a Peruvian tree (Prosopis dulcis), natural order Leguminosæ, suborder Mimosa . The pure white, flaky matter in which the seeds are embedded is used as food, and the pods, which are nearly two feet long, serve for feeding cattle. The mesquite belongs to the same genus.
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a town and temple of ancient Peru, on the coast, about 20 miles S. of Lima. In this temple worship was paid to Pachacama, the ama, the Supreme Deity , or "founder of the world." The ruins of the building, are of an older type of architecture than that of the Incas. The shrine and wooden image of the god were destroyed by Pizarro in 1523. 73 P
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in botany, a genus of Bombaceæ, akin to Adansonia. P. (Carolinea) alba is a South American tree, the inner bark of which furnishes excellent cordage. P. macrantha is a large tree, 100 feet high, with greenish flowers and blood-red filaments. PACHMANN Russian pianist; born in Odessa, Russia, , VLADIMIR DE, July a 27, 1848. He studied under his father, who was a violinist of some talent, and was also a pupil of Dachs at Vienna. His first appearance was in 1869, and in 1871 he began his tours. He visited Paris, Vienna and London (1882-1883) and was received with enthusiasm. He came to the United States and toured the country in 1899-1900. He became famous here and in especially for his interpretations of Chopin. Europe
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a coeducational institution in Forest Grove, Ore.; founded in 1853 under the auspices of the Congregational Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 12; students, 150; Dean, R. F. Clark, A.M.
a coeducational institution in San José, Cal., founded in 1852 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; redents ported; President in 1919:, 34 J. instructors L. Seaton,; Ph 465. D. stu-
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or PACINIAN CORPUSCLES, certain corpuscles appended to the nerves; first noticed by Pacini in 1830 and 1835, and described by him in 1840. In the human subject they are found in great numbers in connection with the nerves of the hand and foot, the nerves, as it may be presumed, of touch; but they also exist sparingly on other spinal nerves, and on the plexuses of the sympathetic, though never on the nerves of motion.
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anciently the name of a small brook of Lydia, in Asia Minor, which rises on the N. slope of Mount N. Tmolus (modern Buz Dagh) flows past Sardis (Sart), and empties itself into the Hermus (Kodus). It is never more than 10 feet broad and 1 foot deep. The sands or mud of Pactolus were long famous in antiquity for the gold dust which they conbrook is now called Sara-
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A town in the Thracian Chersonesus, on the Propontis, to which Alcibiades retired when he was banished by the Athenians, B. C. 407. Pacuvius, M. The greatest of the Roman tragic poets, was born about B. C. 220, at Brundusium, and was the son of the sister of Ennius . His tragedies were taken from the great Greek writers; but he did not confine himself, like his predecessors, to mere translation, but worked up his materials with more freedom and independent judgment. Padus (Po). The chief river of Italy.
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the Polyodon spatula, a large fish allied to the sturgeons, so named from the elongated broad snout with which it stirs up the soft muddy bottom in search of food. It often reaches a length of from 5 to 6 feet. The paddle fishes are exclusively North American in their distribution, being found in the Mississippi, Ohio, and other great rivers of that continent.
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FREDERICK MOR- GAN, an American educator, born at Haverhill, Mass., Mass., in 1875. Graduated from Colby College in 1896 and took post-graduate courses at Yale and in Europe. From 1899 he was professor of English at the University of Idaho and in the year 1901 he became sor of English at the University Washington. He wrote and translated become many works relating to English other literature. He was a to the Cambridge History of Literature and to European and magazines.
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a town of Prussia; 50 miles S. W. of The fine Romanesque cathedral ( completed in 1163, is built over sources of the Pader Pac, and contains silver coffin of St. Liborius. edifices are St. Bartholomew's (1017) and the town house (1615; restored 1870-1876). The old Hanse town was sacked by the Duke of Brunswick in 1622, and it suffered much during the Thirty Years' War. From 1614 to 1819 it was the seat of a Roman Catholic university. Much of it was burnt down in 1875.
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LEMUEL P., member of the House of Representatives from the 7th Tennessee district. Born in Columbia, Tenn., 1855, graduated from Erskine College, South Carolina, 1876. Three years later he began the practice of law at Columbia. From 1898-1900 he was a member of the Tennessee State Senate and in 1901 was elected to Congress, since that time he has been re-elected for every term. When the Democratic party obtained a majority in the House in 1911 Congressman Padgett became Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, and directed the Committee's action during the war with Germany. Since December, 1917, he was a regent of the Smithsonian Institution.
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or PAEZES, an Indian tribe living in the mountains of Colombia. They were formerly a powerful, warlike tribe now reduced to about 2,000. They live in villages and follow agriculture and though inhabiting a cold region wear few clothes. PÆSTUM, an ancient city of Lucania, in southern Italy, in the N. W. extremity of that province, about 4 miles S. E. from the mouth of the Silarus (Selo), and upon a bay of the Tyrrhenian Sea, called Sinus Pæstanus (now Gulf of Salerno). It was a place of importance and great beauty in the time of the Romans, and renowned for the splendid roses grown in its neighborhood, which bloomed twice a year.
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